World Resources Institute

Executive Assistant

• Plan, coordinate, and schedule the Managing Director's business calendar and across multiple time zones.
• Update the Managing Director to cover urgent incoming requests
• Support the preparation, checking, and editing of correspondence and documents. This includes the creation of slide decks and presentation materials that are targeted to senior leadership and external audiences.
• Organize and prepare for business travel, including bookings, pre-travel paperwork and other requirements (e.g., medical testing or vaccinations), creating detailed itineraries, and processing expense claims.
• Maintain an electronic filing system, including recording of official correspondence, maintaining a business contacts database, and task tracking.
• Manage a fast-flowing email inbox, bringing urgent issues and those requiring action to their attention
• Support in preparation and monitoring of budgets. Advise the Managing Director when relevant.
• Help with special projects such as quarterly strategic reviews and other elements of the strategy cycle. This will include data gathering, record keeping, convening team members, and preparing communications.

Executive Assistant – Managing Director, Strategy, Learning & Results

Manager

• Lead water and energy utility engagement to align risk reduction and infrastructure protection with forest and NBS project benefits
• Lead corporate engagement connecting volumetric and water quality benefits delivered by projects with corporate watershed and replenishment targets
• Work with land managers and conservation partners to understand and advance enabling conditions to move projects towards implementation
• Oversee business case development to promote a compelling rationale for beneficiary contributions
• Support the structuring and negotiation of funding agreements, repayment mechanisms, and performance-based contracts
• Develop strategies to move pilot projects to scale
• Manage the portfolio with Blue Forest and other important partners
• Develop and deliver workplans for individual projects and the portfolio, including Ensure deliverables are of high quality and on track and adaptively manage
• Track progress and co-lead internal and external reporting
• Support the Director and senior leadership with proposal development and fundraising strategy implementation to support both project implementation and organizational budgets for the WRI-Blue Forest partnership
• Produce external-facing materials (project and fundraising decks, project and portfolio summaries)
• Represent WRI in meetings, workshops, and external convenings

Executive Assistant – Managing Director, Strategy, Learning & Results

Senior Manager, Colorado River Basin